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by jejones3141 14y ago
Seems like an odd place for the USO to be; are there any troops there that need support?
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by jejones3141 14y ago
Icon or its descendant Unicon might be worth a look, then.
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by jejones3141 14y ago
They don't have the same results if x is signed (-1 >> 1 gives you -1; -1 / 2 typically gives you 0). A compiler worth its salt will optimize x / 2 appropriately. For unsigned, it will emit the shift; for signed, it will generate (x
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by jejones3141 14y ago
Reminds me of some sites that turn off right click on images via Javascript to keep one from saving them... too bad for them that Firefox lets one turn off Javascript. As bdfh42 said, all this succeeds in doing is irritating people--worst c
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by jejones3141 14y ago
"PHP makes writing clean code a challenge..." If that works for you, great, but it sounds like a reason to stay as far away from PHP as possible to me.
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by jejones3141 14y ago
Hmmm. How does one automate CSS testing? I guess Javascript may be able to peek into the DOM and check whether things have the correct color, radius of the corners on the boxes, etc., but how can one automatically determine whether layout i
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by jejones3141 14y ago
Why develop something nobody needs? (Seriously, I think you meant needle-less.)
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by jejones3141 14y ago
>Encampments across the country have fed and clothed local homeless populations despite scant resources. Um, you might want to read http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_k... ; the occupy cooks resented spending th
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by jejones3141 14y ago
Let's see... created environments in which diseases spread (parvovirus in San Francisco, tuberculosis in Atlanta), dead bodies are found, and crimes take place (Google "occupy rap sheet" for several lists), destroyed public property, cost c
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by jejones3141 14y ago
I would add that CACM isn't what it used to be. Nobody's fault, just the result of an expanding field of study. Back in the day, many classic papers would appear in CACM. Nowadays, they'd more likely appear in a SIG publication.
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by jejones3141 14y ago
I'm happy with Bodhi Linux on my netbook. The initial install is ascetic (which I guess is appropriate), but one can easily pull in other apps. E17 provides a beautiful desktop with low overhead, and Bodhi configures it so that things just
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by jejones3141 15y ago
I'm glad The Phantom Tollbooth is on the list, but don't overlook Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line.
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by jejones3141 15y ago
I suspect that OOP had a similar problem at one time.
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by jejones3141 15y ago
MS commercials for IE on HN? sigh Also, I see that they're still citing how fast IE9 is with SunSpider... which it is--but for the same reason that Dhrystone 2 had to be written, i.e. SunSpider has lots of dead code that IE9's Javascript
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by jejones3141 15y ago
Sorry... I can't help seeing "infiltrate" rather than "engage with".
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by jejones3141 15y ago
What compile options were used? Dead code elimination might throw away the parsing, leaving just the I/O; I don't see anything that actually uses the parsed line.
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by jejones3141 15y ago
Duh. Make that "explanation and address".
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by jejones3141 15y ago
I will join philh and sepeth in saying I really like the TypeMatrix 2030. Even if you don't make the switch to Dvorak, which the TypeMatrix makes trivial--like the old "DVORTYboards" the switch is done at the keyboard, no messing with trans
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by jejones3141 15y ago
tl;dr: The binomial theorem is your friend.
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by jejones3141 15y ago
It's a shame they didn't include window managers/windowing environments. I'd be very interested in the responses they'd have gotten.
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by jejones3141 15y ago
As a sophomore in high school (1971), I had the good fortune to take part in an NSF-sponsored seminar that taught BASIC and the elements of numerical analysis. Afterwards, not having computer access, I started up a notebook that I wrote BAS
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by jejones3141 15y ago
Trying to keep the tinfoil hat off, but... when I tried to post a comment on the Adobe blog asking whether Linux is being singled out in this respect and if so, why, I got a database error.
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by jejones3141 15y ago
I moved to Android solely because Sprint and then HP itself had thrown webOS under the bus, but every day I wish I had the webOS UI. With webOS it's obvious which apps are running: it's running iff it has a window, and flicking the window u